Trump was elected president on the strength of his self-proclaimed business mastery. Unfortunately, those writers will get less of a head start from daily journalism than ideally would be the case. Kennedy and John McCain and oversaw publication of Bolton’s book. Historians reconstructing the Trump years will need to work long and deep to understand “the unprecedented nature of a business presidency,” said Jonathan Karp, chief executive officer of Simon & Schuster, who edited the memoirs of Senate legends Edward M. The business of the presidency/the presidency of the business Here are a half-dozen Trump bombshells that have yet to go off-but almost certainly will someday. The onstage drama, paradoxically, may obscure how many important elements of the Trump story remain in the shadows. Like what? I surveyed a dozen acquaintances of various stripes-reporters, historians, publishing executives-for suggestions on the answers. “As always, the question is, what’s our process for getting to the best obtainable version of the truth,” Woodward told me in an interview Wednesday. It’s as though Trump has turned history itself into an amphetamine addict-disoriented and sleep-deprived, craving more stimulation, no longer able to get high off standard dosages. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Subscribe on Google Podcasts Almost every turn of the news cycle produces an episode that-in more conventional times-could easily be the headline of the latest Woodward book or the kind of revelations coaxed from deep in the archives decades after the fact by the likes of a historian like Robert A. But never before have so many pieces of the puzzle been disgorged contemporaneously, in such a relentless and flamboyant way. Understanding any presidency is a vast puzzle. All presidents have gaps between the heroic picture they seek to project to the world and the messy, chaotic, compromised reality of daily life in the White House.
The question itself is a sign of the times. Three and a half years into his presidency we know so much that it raises the question: What do we not yet know about Donald Trump? We know this, of course, because Trump compulsively narrates his own thought stream in real time on Twitter. We know that the president lives in a state of agitated grievance, spending countless dark hours when most people are sleeping fulminating against his enemies and bemoaning that he is being insufficiently praised.
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